Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....MCDONALD, PATSY RUTH May 9, 2015
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News Star World - May 15, 2015
PATSY RUTH MCDONALD

Funeral services for Mrs. Patsy Ruth Crain McDonald will be held 2:00 p.m. 
Sunday, May 17, 2015 at North Monroe Baptist Church, Monroe, Louisiana. 
Reverend Warren Eckhardt and Father Job will officiate the services. Interment 
for the family will follow at the Bethel Cemetery at Holly Ridge, Louisiana 
under the direction of Cox Funeral Home of Bastrop.

Visitation will be Saturday from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.at North Monroe 
Baptist Church.

Patsy Ruth Crain McDonald was born August 8, 1940 at Rayville, Louisiana to the 
late Vernon Crain and Mary Fife Crain. She passed away, surrounded by her 
family, on May 9, 2015 at the Stoneybrook Assisted Living in West Monroe, 
Louisiana. She is preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Lavelle 
Crain.

Patsy was a native of Holly Ridge, Louisiana where she graduated from Holly 
Ridge High School. She graduated with a Master's Degree in Education from the 
University of Louisiana-Monroe. She did additional post graduate work at Auburn 
University. She began her teaching career at Pioneer Elementary School in West 
Carroll Parish before moving to Morehouse Parish where she taught at Bastrop 
Central Junior High, Westside Elementary, and Oak Hill Elementary. She moved to 
Monroe and taught in the Monroe City School System for a number of years ending 
her teaching career serving as Principal of Cypress Point University Elementary 
School. While serving as Principal she developed a special relationship with 
the students and administration of Louisiana Baptist Children's Home. Her 
hobbies included sewing, reading, tending to her rose garden, and spending time 
with her two grandchildren.

Mrs. McDonald is survived by her husband, Dr. Charles R. McDonald of Fairbanks, 
Louisiana; her son, Scott McDonald and his wife, Leazel McDonald of Monroe, 
Louisiana; two grandchildren, Tucker McDonald and McKenzie McDonald, both of 
Monroe, Louisiana. She is also survived by two brothers, Max Crain and his 
wife, Louise Crain of DeVille, Louisiana and Lloyd Crain and his wife, Carol 
Crain of Chatham, Louisiana.

Serving as pallbearers are Bruce Crain, Allen Crain, Pat Murphy, Cliff Carroll, 
Donovan McDonald, and Brian Moreau. Honorary pallbearers will be Bernard Sager, 
Larry DeBlieux, Ron Bush, Bruce Hanks, Eric Mahaffey, Kris McKoin and Mike 
Gammill.

For those who wish, the family suggest planned memorials be made to the 
Louisiana Baptist Children's Home, P.O. Box 4196, Monroe, Louisiana 71211.

Cox Funeral Home, Bastrop, LA 

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